<p>Yeah, I really don’t know. I don’t know if it’s the government, mainly because not every university does this, only a few I know. And the Mexican government is not involved either, as far as I know.
It could be both the Govt and the institution taking part in the funding, but I might be wrong. I think UPenn and Cornell are the only two Ivies that have special FinAid treatment for these two countries.</p>
<p>@guyinblue - True, they don’t really solve the problem!!
And IIT is not my piece of cake!! I know, the cutoff’s 97% for General Category(Hate this category thing!!) and a friend of mine is aiming for that!!</p>
<p>And ya, true, you get to explore more there(USA) than here(India)!! And ahh - a politician!! Good luck to you on that!! :)</p>
<p>Anyway @andreaval - lucky you!! Aid is worrying me so much!! Even my target( only one - Northwestern) is looking like a distant possibility!! Let alone my dream schools(5 Ivies except H,Y,B)</p>
<p>Can someone explain something to me. For deferred students, the chances of being admitted are 11%. However for RD students, the chances are around 20%. How is this possible… if you get deferred this means that you’re qualified but they’re still hesitating a bit. Shouldn’t the chances be higher than regular decision applicants? Sorry if this isn’t clear but I’m sure some of you will understand what I mean.</p>
<p>the RD chances are nowhere near 20%… more like 3-5% for Wharton</p>
<p>@rishav17 - IIT is only for the hardcore people who can study off for like 6 - 8 hours at a stretch. I just cant do that because I cant concentrate for so long. Also, IIT does guarantee a stable future : The Indian dream -> Be an engineer, get paid well and live happily ever after.
Kudos to your friend! I absolutely hate myself for choosing the science stream :p</p>
<p>Yes indeed. haha, ill need all that. 
Still a distant dream though 
Getting an education seems to be my immediate problem :)</p>
<p>Also, dont mind me asking, but why did you leave out HYB? I left out B because of its horrendous essays -.- and also a news article I read about Brown. :|</p>
<p>@andreaval - that makes sense, or you could be right too ;)</p>
<p>@Wharton3 - I dont really get what youre saying because overall Penn’s acceptance rate is 12.3 percent. And both of your figures SEEM to be off mark.</p>
<p>My regional admissions officer looked at my LinkedIn profile… Any idea what this means?</p>
<p>^ Please SHop - Stop worrying. You’ve submitted your application!! Leave it to them to decide!! </p>
<p>@guyinblue - Haha, I left out Brown because of the 3 essays too!!
Harvard, because a highly competitive friend from the same school was applying & we wanted to maximize our chances!! Yale - Just didn’t seem right to me!!
My dream —> Invent something life changing and then sleep for the rest of my life!!
And I am the kind of guy who plays FIFA13 the night before exams - so understandably - no IIT!! And that friend of mine took Science too - and curses himself!!</p>
<p>@Wharton3- a lot of qualified kids ultimately don’t get in. I have no inside track but I would guess that some deferred kids give up out of disappointment, others probably don’t bolster their application or demonstrate their passion for the school, others get beat out by RD applicants.</p>
<p>Is it expected that there will be approx 25,000 RD applicants vying for approx 1250 spots in class of 2017?What is expected yield in RD??</p>
<p>^ The RD yield last year was 47% (1319 RD matriculants out of 2789 RD acceptees):</p>
<p>[Incoming</a> Class Profile - Penn Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/apply/incoming-class-profile]Incoming”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/apply/incoming-class-profile)</p>
<p>Also, there were 26,691 RD applicants last year, plus 888 deferred ED applicants, for a total RD pool of 27,579 and an overall RD acceptance rate of 10%.</p>
<p>Thx 45. On another note my daughter(H.S. jr) is meeting w/ people @ Kelly Writers house and is going to sit in on a class. She loves to write, and the folks she’s talking too couldn’t be any nicer. Who knows, maybe Penn class of 2018? We can only hope.</p>
<p>^ Best of luck to her! The Kelly Writers House is phenomenal–really an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in any kind of writing. Have you seen The New York Times article about it from several years ago?</p>
<p><a href=“Writers Find Haven on an Ivy Campus - The New York Times”>Writers Find Haven on an Ivy Campus - The New York Times;
<p>Yes she saw the link to the NYT article and spoke to her AP english teacher(Penn grad.)about it. Her brother was just accepted Ed class of 2017. She has written dozens of short stories and is now writing a novel. She is #1 in her class of approx, 450 and will be a Natl. Merit S.F. Prior to her tag along visits with her brother she was leaning towards Princeton, Williams,Swarthmore as top 3. She wants to be a writer/History-Archaeology Professor. Professor Levin is going to let her sit in on her class 1/30/13.She’s very excited about Penn now.</p>
<p>^ And she’s a legacy, if I remember correctly? ;)</p>
<p>Writer/History/Archaeology (cough . . . Penn Museum . . . cough)? Sounds like Penn is the perfect place for her. Hope she ends up there! :)</p>
<p>Thanks 45, We appreciate it. Is it presumptuos to call her a legacy if her brother doen’t start until the fall?? She hadn’t realised about the museum until we were there a couple of weeks ago.Having both my kids @ Penn would be great. Go Quakers.</p>
<p>^ Sorry, I must be confusing you with another parent who went to Penn. :o</p>
<p>Nope, siblings don’t confer official legacy status. But it can help to substantiate her knowledge of and interest in Penn if she mentions her brother in her essays, etc.</p>
<p>^ Good point. Thanks</p>
<p>That 1% extra chance of admission as a deferred applicant is definitely going to help me out…</p>
<p>^Same here. Well, every 100 people, it’ll help 2 people out ;).</p>
<p>just had my interview this morning. It went well, but seemed rather short (only a half an hour). Anyways, my excitement/nervousness just increased; March 28 seems so far away.</p>